Cortina d'Ampezzo Prize 2026

Every summer, since 2011, the Cortina d’Ampezzo Prize celebrates the pages capable of moving, telling the great contemporary narrative and the deep relationship between man and mountain.

The sixteenth edition reaches its climax with the announcement of the winners and a special meeting with two authors who, through radically different experiences, have made words a tool to cross their own boundaries.

Leonardo Colombati, winner of the Cortina d’Ampezzo Prize with No More Night (Mondadori), and Wafaa Amer, winner of the Cortina d’Ampezzo Mountain Prize with I Am Wafaa (Solferino), meet on stage to share their stories, their way of looking at the world, and what it means to transform experience into literature.

On one side is Colombati’s writing, an author of novels and essays and a protagonist in the Italian cultural scene; on the other is the extraordinary story of Wafaa Amer, born in Egypt and arriving as a child in Italy, who found strength in climbing to conquer freedom, identity, and the future.

Two distant paths, but united by the same tension: not to accept imposed limits and to seek, through one's passions, a possible path.

On stage, alongside the winning authors, the voices of the Jury and the protagonists of the Prize, in an evening dedicated to books, people, and stories that leave a mark.

Free entry until seats are filled

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